The NFL released a spot on Monday featuring its very own Football Baby, a cute, chubby-cheeked child who dresses up like a football and pretends to predict the outcomes of games. Indeed, the NFL dubbed Football Baby, which it introduced in the 2014 season, as "one of the most prominent prognosticators in football."

But basically it doesn't take much to be a prominent prognosticator: Football Baby merely plays with toys that represent different teams while a weird voice in the background injects meaning into his choices. (Though he does have a winning predictions, and even went undefeated for the first half of the 2014 season.)

The whole thing is actually pretty weird — especially Football Baby's title card, which includes a baby's head superimposed on a football to look like some kind of mutant.

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